In this article, Söll and colleagues review the mechanisms of genetic code flexibility — biased codon usage, codon reassignment, ambiguous decoding and recoding — and discuss how this ...

The genetic code is redundant, so that several codons represent the same single amino acid, but there are no ambiguities. There are no examples of a single codon within any genome that represents more ...

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For example, one of the cornerstones of conventional views of genetic code evolution rests on the famous Urey-Miller experiment of 1952, which attempted to simulate the conditions on early Earth ...

The genetic code is redundant, so that several codons represent the same single amino acid, but there are no ambiguities. There are no examples of a single codon within any genome that represents ...